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ATLANTA: Ben S Bernanke is tightening his control of Federal Reserve communications to ensure investors hear his pro-stimulus message over the cacophony of more hawkish views from regional bank presidents. The Fed chairman, starting Tuesday, will cut the time between the release of post-meeting statements by the Federal Open Market Committee and his news briefings, giving investors less opportunity to misperceive the Fed's intent. In recent presentations, he has pledged to sustain easing, defending $85 billion in monthly bond purchases in Congress last month and warning that "premature removal of accommodation" may weaken the expansion".

WASHINGTON: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S Bernanke said attempting to raise borrowing costs too soon could choke off the economic expansion as he pushed back against criticism that low rates are hurting people on fixed incomes and encouraging excessive risk-taking by investors. "Premature rate increases would carry a high risk of short-circuiting the recovery, possibly leading -- ironically enough -- to an even longer period of low long-term rates," Bernanke said in a speech in San Francisco.

WASHINGTON: Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's latest round of bond buying will reach $1.14 trillion before he ends the programme in the first quarter of 2014, according to median estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists. Bernanke will push on with purchases of $40 billion a month of mortgage bonds and $45 billion a month of Treasuries, according to the survey of 44 economists, even as some Fed officials warn his unprecedented balance-sheet expansion will impair efforts to tighten policy when necessary.

WASHINGTON: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his fellow policy makers will probably forge ahead with their unprecedented bond buying when they meet next week, even as they pick up a debate on when to end the purchases. The job market has yet to show the "substantial" gains Bernanke said he wants to see before halting asset purchases. Unemployment has persisted at 7.8% or higher since January 2009 while Bernanke held the main interest rate near zero and expanded the Fed's assets to a record $2.9 trillion.

WASHINGTON: Emerging markets like India and China are witnessing a remarkable transformation, despite a slowdown in economic growth, lifting millions of people out of poverty, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has said. "In the emerging markets, you have a variety of different stories, but I think the fundamentals there, in the emerging markets, are pretty good, and even if there's some moderation of growth in some countries, we are seeing overall a rather remarkable transformation of places like China and India, which has been the biggest anti-poverty programme in history," he said yesterday.

In an interview with ET Now, Rajeev Malik, senior economist, CLSA, talks about the US presidential election and its impact on the Indian market. Excerpts: ET Now: It seems like Obama at least now is leading with a marginal victory. How do you see this development in terms of policy continuity, easy liquidity? Is that going to be positive for economies like India? Rajeev Malik : India has enough problems on the domestic front, that is very much work in progress. So while an Obama victory would clearly be helpful in some ways, Indian policy makers have cut out for them, especially on the domestic agenda, rather than being bothered by what happens in the US frankly.

MUMBAI: The US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on his first visit to India discussed issues relating to the banking industry and policy challenges with the Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao . "We discussed some banking issues of mutual interest," Bernanke said in his 100 seconds speech at the portico of the 25-floor Reserve Bank of India on the Mint Street. "It has been very constructive. " Bernanke and the US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner visited the central bank as part of their trip to promote the Indo-US financial partnership.

MUMBAI : At a breakfast meeting with US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke , Indian industry leaders discussed various economic issues, including the latest round of reforms by India, with the visiting US officials. Among those present were Chanda Kochhar , managing director and CEO of ICICI Bank , Hari Bhartia, co-chairman and founder of Jubilant Bhartia Group, and Rajiv Lall, vice chairman and managing director of IDFC.

MUMBAI: US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Fed Reserve Chairman Ben S Bernanke today discussed global economic situation, monetary policies and some banking issues of mutual interest with RBI Governor D Subbarao and other top officials. Earlier in the day, they also met industry captains and sought to dispel fears that America's bond buying programme (QE3) would push up global food prices. Emerging from a meeting with his counterpart Subbarao Bernanke , the first US Fed Chairman to visit India, said the the visit was "very constructive".

The finance ministry will play host to a delegation of high-profile US officials led by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday. The ministry is hopeful that US officials will give India a patient hearing on areas of vital concern now that New Delhi has met most of US' longpending demands of allowing FDI in multi-brand retail and raising investment limit in insurance. The two-day meeting, which will also be attended by Fed chairman Ben Bernanke , is expected to set the agenda for Indo-US economic engagement over the next few years.